Professor Larry Bell, of the University of Houston, writes at Newsmax: "While the water temperature in the Gulf of Mexico is recently about 4 degrees above average, a review of major Gulf hurricanes between 1870 and 2010 by meteorologist Roy Spencer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, revealed that they occurred with equal frequency both when when conditions were below and above average. Since hurricanes don't seem to care about global warming in the least either way, why should we? Nevertheless, let's recognise that tropical storms and hurricanes always remain to be very real and serious coastal threats."

A report published in London three years ago by the Global Warming Policy Foundation argued that our climate is considerably less sensitive to greenbhouse gases that climate models estimate. A new GWPF report by UK climate scientist Nick Lewis, and Dutch science writer Marcel Crok says recent evidence justifies a lower observationally-based temperature range.

Links below lead to a pdf files of a short version and a longer version, both with forewords by Professor Judith Curry.

THe UK-based Scientific Alliance takes issue with claims of links between Atlantic hurricanes and so-called "man-made global warming" (aka climate change): "But no amount of moral blackmail will enable us to tune the climate to our liking when long term natural processes are underway, about which we understand very little and cannot control."

James Delingpole writes in The Spectator: "Environmentalism has gone too far; renewable energy is a disaster; scares abut pesticides and chemicals are horribly overdone; no, the planet is not going to end any time soon; and, by the way, the answer is nuclear... THis isn't me speaking, but the views of an environmentalist so learned, distinguished and influential you could call him the Godfather of Green. His name is James Lovelock, the maverick independent scientist perhaps best known for positing the theory that our planet is an interconnected, self-regulating organism called Gaia."

"The science publication Nature Climate Change this year, published a study demonstrating Earth this century warmed substantially less than computer-generated climate models predict. Unfortunately for public knowledge, such findings don’t appear in the news. Sea levels too have not been obeying the ‘grand transnational narrative’ of catastrophic global warming." David Blackall, Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University of Wollongong, Australia, notes the lamentable state of scientific reporting, adding: "Observational scientific analyses and their data sets continue to disagree with much of climate science modelling, and are beginning to suggest that some natural phenomena, which cause variability, may never be identified"

"The central premise of former US Vice President Al Gore's climate change films is impossible. Not merely wrong or exaggerated, as many of his opponents claim, but literally impossible. Gore is supposedly telling us 'truth' about climate science....But Gore does not really know the truth about the causes and consequences of climate change. Indeed no one does, not even the world's leading experts. This is not just because the science is enormously complicated. It is also because scientific hypotheses, and even scientififc theories, are not absolute truth; they can be, and often are, wrong. Science 'facts' are merely the current opinions of experts, and, especially in the case of climate change, different experts often have very different points of view." Tom Harris, executive director of the International Climate Science Coalition, writing in the UK's World Commerce Review.